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Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
Kate Atkinson
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Kate Atkinson
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.
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She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.
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Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.
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The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
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Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.
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They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.
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Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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She doesn't believe in dogs, Bridget said. Dogs are hardly an article of faith, Sylvie said.
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No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.
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(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)
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